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Knight in Paper Armor by Nicholas Conley
5.0
One of the best books I've read all year!
The story was heartbreaking, it moved me to tears many times and ever since I read I can't get it out of my mind.
The story starts with a scientist trying to recruit Billy Jakober for research. He is still a little kid but has very unique psychic abilities. He can absorb other people's pain and other emotions, feel the world around him and push his will onto others with just his voice.
As a kid, he was too afraid to speak. Fast forward to the present, Billy was just woken from his last sting in the tank. And is slowly remembering the past. He is basically the property of The Thorne Century that is supposedly using his abilities for making medicine. He is stationed in the small town of Heaven's hole. And there is the town he meets Natalia. She, with her family immigrated to Heaven's hole, where her mother works insane hours for the company, while Natalia takes care of her little brothers and sick grandma.
When they meet, it's electric. :) She is not afraid of him, and the more time they spend together, the closer they are. But not all is ever remotely good in that town and company and it will soon come to blow. :)
I was mesmerized by the story, set in a futuristic world, filled with racism and poverty. The writing was awesome! I was hooked from the start to finish. The only thing I wasn't a fan, was the ending.
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The story was heartbreaking, it moved me to tears many times and ever since I read I can't get it out of my mind.
The story starts with a scientist trying to recruit Billy Jakober for research. He is still a little kid but has very unique psychic abilities. He can absorb other people's pain and other emotions, feel the world around him and push his will onto others with just his voice.
As a kid, he was too afraid to speak. Fast forward to the present, Billy was just woken from his last sting in the tank. And is slowly remembering the past. He is basically the property of The Thorne Century that is supposedly using his abilities for making medicine. He is stationed in the small town of Heaven's hole. And there is the town he meets Natalia. She, with her family immigrated to Heaven's hole, where her mother works insane hours for the company, while Natalia takes care of her little brothers and sick grandma.
When they meet, it's electric. :) She is not afraid of him, and the more time they spend together, the closer they are. But not all is ever remotely good in that town and company and it will soon come to blow. :)
I was mesmerized by the story, set in a futuristic world, filled with racism and poverty. The writing was awesome! I was hooked from the start to finish. The only thing I wasn't a fan, was the ending.
received from author